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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

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We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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